Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: Professional Literature that Makes a Difference

In this book, Maryellen Weimer provides an essential resource for
anyone who is engaged in efforts to improve teaching in higher
education. This comprehensive book draws on a wide array of sources
to help practitioners build on the foundation laid by existing
scholarly work on teaching and learning. Enhancing Scholarly
Work on Teaching and Learning reviews previously published work
on teaching and learning to better guide those engaged in
pedagogical scholarship and to help develop a literature that meets
the needs of faculty.

Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning
includes an analysis of the practitioner literature on teaching and
learning in two main categories—the wisdom of scholarship and
research scholarship. The first category uses the lens of
experience to analyze instructional issues, and the second category
employs more objective frames to assess instructional issues. The
book explores four experiential approaches to teaching and learning
(personal accounts of change, recommended-practices reports,
recommended-content reports, and personal narratives and includes
an analysis of the three most common research methods (quantitative
investigation, qualitative studies, and descriptive research).
Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning also
includes information about other methods in addition to the main
approaches.

Maryellen Weimer teaches beginning students introductory
communication courses full-time at Penn State Berks, where she is a
professor of teaching and learning. In 2005, Weimer received the
Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, one of Penn
State’s university-wide teaching awards.
Weimer received a Ph.D. in speech communication in 1981 from Penn
State. Spending most of her career at Penn State, Weimer has held
several different positions at the university. For ten years she
directed the university’s Instructional Development Program.
She also served as a senior research associate in Penn
State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education, where she
was an associate director of the National Center on Postsecondary
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, a U.S. Department of Education
Research and Development Center funded for five years.
Over the past twenty years, Weimer has consulted with more than 275
colleges and universities in the United States and Canada as well
as overseas on a variety of instructional issues. She regularly
keynotes national conferences and regional meetings.
Since 1987, Weimer has edited Teaching Professor, a monthly
newsletter on college teaching. She has authored or edited nine
books, including one on faculty development, one on teaching for
new faculty, and an anthology edited with Robert Menges,
Teachingon Solid Ground: Using Scholarship to Improve
Practice (Jossey-Bass, 1995). Her most recent Jossey-Bass book,
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, was
published in 2002.

"Draws on a wide array of sources to help practitioners build on
the foundation laid by existing scholarly work on teaching and
learning." (Hispanic Outlook, 05/05/08)

"The value of this book, instead, is its affirmation that this
type of work is important . . . It is refreshing to see this type
of devotion, passion, in such a book." (Journal of Higher
Education, 11/2007)

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